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This is the place to post that hilarious irreligious YouTube video, an irreverent, anti-religious cartoon, or other humorous bit of media. Posts that do not reflect an atheist/irreligious theme will be deleted. (Don't make me go Old Testament.)

I could swear there was a BBC series entitled "Yes, Father" I looked, using all kinds of keywords and can find no evidence of them. The old priest was short and pudgy, and the young priest was naive and innocent. No sign of them can I find. Did I just fabricate them?

BTW, if you're looking for laughs, mixed in with some solid weirdness, you can join the Facebook group "Christians Against Dinosaurs."

Hell, they got Aron Ra. He interviewed the woman on the Ra-Men Podcast.

The part that I find funniest is that it's making its way from Poe to real phenomenon, with the addition of the actual Christians who really buy the suggestion. It could make a full transition if the group splinters, with one of the Christian true-believers going off and forming another group, pushing the argument seriously this time.

Isn't Idaho where they are trying to promote an official state religion?

You have to narrow it down a bit, man. There are several states that have had legislation to that effect at least proposed in one of the state legislative branches, in the last few years, including my own. The dominionists are beginning to show their hand a bit more openly, since about 2010 or so.

Man! When a parodist gets fooled by a parody, is his face red! I take comfort in the fact that I wasn't the only one. Just Google "dead for 48 minutes" and you'll see it repeated all over the Internet. I should have realized it when the alleged Father's name was spelled O'neal. Oh, well, good for a blog post.

BTW, if you're looking for laughs, mixed in with some solid weirdness, you can join the Facebook group "Christians Against Dinosaurs." As far as I can guess, the group was founded by humor-minded rationalists, adopted as truth by sincere Christians who believe that the Bible denies dino existence, and argued over endlessly by the Christians and atheists who are just goading them on and, unfortunately, atheists who don't seem to be getting the joke.

Thanks, Richard! The "news item" is a good example of Poe's Law; other articles in the "news" site reveal it to be a parody site.

And your commentary is spot-on! God being a heavenly Mother would mean that "Jesus Christ ... was the product of a same-sex relationship. That's mind-boggling, and nothing the Cardinal is going to tolerate."

Not to mention -- perhaps even more threatening -- the Catholic Church having to admit they were wrong for all those centuries about not ordaining women!

(And the Mormon church having to admit they were wrong about a lot of things, including their opposition to same-sex marriage!)